Tone bar length table?

[thebob]

Hi Everyone-

Does anyone of a table with the standard length of the tone bars in a Fender Rhodes?   

I've seen a lot of discussion throughout the site about length, but no one seems to have a table.   I've got a few tonebars in my older piano whose lengths do not match the numbers (they are clearly shorter then their neighbors) and I'd like to figure out if that's intended.

I suspect some of the major refurbishers like Vintage Vibe might have one (hint hint).

Thanks,
theBob

[pianotuner steveo]

It was a page in the original service manual
It should be on this site somewhere

[thebob]

Near as I can tell the manual has the tine lengths (though these are in the form of an image/templates, not actual measurements), but I don't see the tonebar lengths.

[pianotuner steveo]

Oops, I misread it, I thought you were asking for tine lengths. Why do you need the bar lengths?  Do those notes sound noticeably different?

[thebob]

It was weird: tone bar 65 was noticeably shorter than either 64 or 66.  I was having a hard time getting it in tune -- even with the spring all the way out I just couldn't get it flat enough.  I suspected the shorter tone bar might be culprit (I know that doesn't make a difference on the lower keys, but those upper bars are more finicky).  So I wanted to find out if it was the right length. 

I ended up ordering a new one from VV -- it was longer than my old one, but still shorter than its neighbors. A mystery!  The others are all nicely descending in length.

(if you're curious how I got it in tune, I ended up swapping the tine from a neighbor that was longer than the one I had and retuning both).